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Medical Device-Maker Hires Veteran Atty As General Counsel
Neuromod Devices Ltd., a medical technology company known for its FDA-approved tinnitus treatment device Lenire, has found its new general counsel in a veteran pharmaceutical in-house attorney.
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CLO Of Emissions Verification Group Steps In As Interim CEO
The top attorney for the Science Based Targets initiative, an organization that helps companies set emission reduction targets, has been named interim chief executive officer following the resignation of its CEO after weeks of backlash.
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GE Vernova's GC On 'Rewiring Energy' For The World
GE Vernova, spun off from General Electric Co. three months ago, is going on to "rewire energy," in the words of its new general counsel, Rachel Gonzalez.
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What AI Contract Tools Can — And Still Cannot — Do
Artificial intelligence-written contracts have seen recent advancements from intelligent contract analysis to automated drafting. However, you still can't completely trust an artificial intelligence-written contract without human review.
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Debevoise Can't Avoid Testifying In Ex-Cognizant Execs' Trial
A New Jersey federal judge denied Tuesday a bid by Debevoise & Plimpton LLP to quash a subpoena seeking testimony from a firm partner for the coming bribery trial of two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives.
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Ex-Senior Apple Atty To Pay SEC $1.1M For Insider Trading
Apple's former director of corporate law must pay $1.1 million to securities regulators stemming from criminal insider trading charges to which he pled guilty in 2022, a New Jersey federal judge said Tuesday, finding that his "egregious" violations warrant the penalty since "his very job" was to ensure compliance with securities laws.
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Tech Co. Startup Names Ex-Twitter Exec Privacy Chief
Tools for Humanity, a technology startup co-founded and chaired by OpenAI head Sam Altman, announced Tuesday that a former Twitter executive has been appointed as the company's first chief privacy officer.
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Ex-Wilson Sonsini Atty Joins Calif. Lab Tech Co. As CLO
California-based Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that a former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC member and the ex-legal chief at software company Pendo.io has been appointed its chief legal officer.
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Avalo Therapeutics Names Seasoned Pharma Atty As CLO
Avalo Therapeutics, a biotechnology company based in the Philadelphia suburbs, tapped a veteran general counsel to lead its legal department.
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Thomas Warns Of 'Danger In Delay' In Snapchat Abuse Case
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to review whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes platforms from lawsuits based on their own misconduct, rejecting a petition from a man who alleges that his high school teacher used Snapchat to send him sexually explicit material when he was 15.
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The Top In-House Hires Of June
Two of America's largest companies, GM and ExxonMobil, decided in June to hire from the outside to replace their top lawyers, while Volkswagen Group of America promoted its next general counsel from within. Here, Law360 looks at some of the top in-house announcements from June.
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Cohu General Counsel To Transition To Part-Time Role
The general counsel at semiconductor testing company Cohu will transition into a part-time role by mid-July, with the assistant general counsel set to take over as legal chief, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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'Aggressive' LA Boutique Opens NY Office With DOJ Alum
A year after its founding, Los Angeles-based litigation boutique Frost LLP announced Monday it is opening a New York location and hired a former federal prosecutor and ex-senior in-house counsel to head up the new office.
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Ingevity GC Resigns, Joins Security Co.
Ireland-based security company Allegion PLC announced Monday that the former general counsel at chemical manufacturer Ingevity was appointed its new senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary.
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Former Paul Hastings Atty Joins AI Co. Hebbia As Legal Head
Tech company Hebbia has hired Ryan Samii, a former associate at Paul Hastings LLP, to be its head of legal, according to a company blog post Monday.
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UChicago General Counsel Jumps To Duke University
Duke University has named its next top lawyer, selecting the current vice president and general counsel at the University of Chicago to become general counsel and chief legal officer for the North Carolina research university, the school announced Monday.
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GCs Split On Effects Of Eliminating Chevron Doctrine
Tossing out the Chevron Doctrine, as the U.S. Supreme Court did Friday, may not change a company's or a general counsel's day-to-day business routine, but it does open up corporations to the uncertainty and possible chaos from shifting interpretations of the law, some experts told Law360 Pulse.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a decades-old precedent that instructed judges about when they could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking, and the Conference Board issued a new report urging the country's leaders to adopt a national artificial intelligence framework. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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VW America Elevates In-House Atty With BigLaw Chops To GC
Volkswagen Group of America announced that it has promoted an experienced in-house attorney to the role of general counsel to oversee all legal matters for the U.S.-based group of the German automaker.
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Former Vodafone, Reuters GC Joins Deloitte Legal in London
Deloitte Legal has brought on as its new senior adviser a former general counsel for U.K. telecommunications company Vodafone Group PLC, a spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of June with another action-packed week of BigLaw hires and three straight days of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Nasdaq Private Market Elects A Former ING GC To Its Board
Nasdaq Private Market has appointed the former top attorney for New Enterprise Associates Inc. and general counsel of ING Group to its board of managers.
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Swedish Energy Co. Vattenfall Names New General Counsel
Swedish energy company Vattenfall announced that longtime general counsel Anne Gynnerstedt will leave the company after 12 years, with the current head of corporate affairs at Polarium Energy Solutions set to succeed her in August.
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Why GCs Might Hand Off The Corporate Secretary Role
General counsel shifting some of their responsibilities — such as the corporate secretary role — to someone else happens often, and largely depends on an organization's size, complexity and changing business lines, legal experts said.
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Ecolab Promotes In-House Atty To Become GC
Chemical manufacturer Ecolab Inc. has promoted an in-house attorney who has been with the company for nearly a decade to lead its global legal functions.